21st Annual GLAAD Media Award Nominees Announced Including One for AfterElton.com

Every year GLAAD gives out awards for outstanding GLBT media representation. This year there are 152 nominees competing in 32 media categories – everything from Outstanding Drama Series to Outstanding Comic Book.

Greeley
Tribune [Greeley, Colo.]
Los Angeles Times
The New York Times
Portland Press Herald [Portland, Maine]
The Washington Post

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE ARTICLE

"Coming Out in
Middle School" by Benoit Denizet-Lewis (The
New York Times Magazine)
"Either/Or:
Sports, Sex and the Case of Caster Semenya"by Ariel Levy (The New Yorker)
"Gay on
Trial" by Gabriel Arana (The
American Prospect)
"Trouble in Paradise" by Jeannine Amber (Essence)
"What’s Right
with Utah"
by Lisa Duggan (The Nation)

OUTSTANDING MAGAZINE OVERALL COVERAGE

The Advocate
Entertainment Weekly
The Nation
Newsweek
People

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM ARTICLE

"Former College
Football Captain Was Openly Gay" by Cyd Zeigler, Jr. (Outsports.com)
"McMackin’s
Slur Reveals Larger Problem" by LZGranderson (ESPN.com)
"On
the Road to Refuge" by
Pete Muller (ColorLines.com)
"’We Love You,
This Won’t Change a Thing’" by John Buccigross (ESPN.com)
"Why Can’t You
Just Butch Up? Gay Men, Effeminacy, and Our War with Ourselves" by Brent
Hartinger (AfterElton.com)

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL JOURNALISM –MULTIMEDIA

"AIDS Lifecycle: On the Road" by Derrick Shore (Advocate.com)
"From Stonewall to Mainstream" research by JessicaBennett, Rebecca
Shabad, & Brooke Browne(Newsweek.com)
"The Stonewall Riots: 40 Years Later" produced by
Dave Singleton
(AARP.com)

40 is the New 15 book and lyrics by Larry Todd Johnson, music by Cindy O’ConnorAnita Bryant Died for Your Sins by Brian Christopher Williams
Battle
Hymn by Jim Leonard
Bingo with the Indians by Adam Rapp
Lydia by Octavio Solis

OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER:BROADWAY &
OFF-BROADWAY

A Boy and His Soul by
Colman Domingo
The Brother/Sister
Plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Next Fall by
Geoffrey Nauffts
Soul Samurai by
Qui Nguyen
The Temperamentals by
Jon Marans

OUTSTANDING NEW YORK THEATER:OFF-OFF BROADWAY

Abraham Lincoln’s Big
Gay Dance Party by Aaron Loeb
Devil Boys From Beyond
by Buddy Thomas
The Lily’s Revenge
by Taylor Mac
She Like Girls by
Chisa Hutchinson
Wickets created
and conceived by Clove Galilee and Jenny Rogers, adapted from Fefu and Her Friends byMaria Irene
Fornes

SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Hair book and
lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni,music by Galt
MacDermot